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DUDLEY COSTELLO (1803-1865)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 222 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUDLEY See also:COSTELLO (1803-1865)  , See also:English journalist and novelist, son of See also:Colonel J . F . See also:Costello, was See also:born in See also:Ireland in 1803 . He was educated for the See also:army at See also:Sandhurst, and served for a See also:short See also:time in See also:India, See also:Canada and the See also:West Indies . His See also:literary and See also:artistic tastes led him to quit the army in 1828, and he then passed some years in See also:Paris . He was introduced to See also:Baron See also:Cuvier, who employed him as draughtsman in the preparation of his Regne See also:animal . He next occupied himself in copying illuminated See also:manuscripts in the Bibliotheque Royale; and to him and his See also:sister belongs the merit of being the first to draw See also:general See also:attention to this beautiful forgotten See also:art, and ofthus leading to its revival . About 1838 Costello became See also:foreign correspondent to the See also:Morning See also:Herald; in 1846 he became foreign correspondent of the Daily See also:News; and during the last twenty years of his See also:life he held the See also:post of sub-editor of the Examiner . He wrote A Tour through the Valley of the See also:Meuse (1845) and See also:Piedmont and See also:Italy, from the See also:Alps to the See also:Tiber (1859-1861) . Among his novels are Stories from a See also:Screen (1855), The Millionaire (1858), Faint See also:Heart never won See also:Fair See also:Lady (1859) and Holidays with Hobgoblins (186o) . He died on the 3oth of See also:September 1865 . His See also:elder sister, LOUISA See also:STUART COSTELLO (1799-1870), author and See also:miniature painter, was born in Ireland in 1799 .

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father died while she was See also:young, and Louisa, who removed to Paris with her See also:mother in 1814, helped to support her mother and See also:brother by her skill as an artist . At the See also:age of sixteen she published a See also:volume of See also:verse entitled The Maid of the See also:Cyprus Isle, and other poems . This was followed in 1825 by Songs of a Stranger, dedicated to W . L . See also:Bowles . Ten years later appeared her Specimens of the See also:Early See also:Poetry of See also:France, illustrated by beautifully executed illuminations, the See also:work of her brother and herself . It was dedicated to See also:Moore, and procured her his friendship as well as that of See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott . Her See also:principal See also:works are—A Summer among the Bocages and Vines (184o); The See also:Queen's Poisoner (or . The Queen-Mother), a See also:historical See also:romance (1841); See also:Beam and the See also:Pyrenees (1844); See also:Memoirs of Eminent Englishwomen (1844); The See also:Rose See also:Garden of See also:Persia (1845), a See also:series of See also:translations from See also:Persian poets, with illuminations by herself and her brother; The Falls, Lakes and Mountains of See also:North See also:Wales (1845); See also:Clara Fane (1848), a novel; Memoirs of See also:Mary of See also:Burgundy (1853); and Memoirs of See also:Anne of See also:Brittany (1855) . She died at See also:Boulogne on the 24th of See also:April 187o . COSTER-MONGER (originally COSTARD-MONGER, a seller of costards, a See also:species of large ribbed See also:apple) . The word " monger " is See also:common, in various forms, in See also:Teutonic See also:languages in the sense of trader or dealer, and appears in "See also:iron-monger " and " See also:fish-monger," and with a derogatory significance of See also:petty or under-See also:hand dealing in such words as "See also:scandal-monger." A "costermonger," or " coster," originally, therefore, one who sold apples and See also:fruit in the See also:street, is now an itinerant dealer in fruit, vegetables or fish, but more particularly, as distinguished from a "See also:hawker" on the one hand, and " general dealer " on the other, is a street trader in the above commodities who uses a See also:barrow .

The coster-monger's See also:

trade in See also:London, so far as it falls under clause 6 of the See also:Metropolitan Streets See also:Act 1867, which deals with obstruction by goods to footways and streets is subject to regulations of the See also:commissioner of See also:police . So See also:long as these are carried out, coster-mongers, street See also:hawkers and itinerant traders are exempted, by an amending act, from the liabilities imposed by clause 6 of the above act .

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